MobileOK Checker is a simple online tool for webmasters which lets to test mobile friendliness of any website. It checks website on variety of parameters such as page size, network, markup, page structure, layout, style sheet, images and generates detailed reports where each point is clearly explained.

Features:

• Quickly check how mobile friendly is your website.
• Check as many websites as you like .
• Free, simple to use.
• Similar tool: Movylo, Ubik, Mowser, Mofuse and Google Mobilizer.

Check out MobileO Checker @ www.validator.w3.org/mobile

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• Andanza : Make Your Blog Mobile Friendly
• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages
• Vozme: Online Text to Speech Converter
• Sikbox: Live Search Box For Your Blog or Website
• Rotatee : Rotate Banners on your Website

FluShot is a flu shot locator from Google, created especially for this flu season. It helps you find nearby locations for both seasonal and H1N1 vaccinations. Simply visit the site, click the “Change location” link, type in your address, and Google will display the seasonal (red marker) and H1N1 (blue marker) vaccination locations in your area. Additional info such as availability, price and working hours is also displayed.

Currently FluShot lists clinics and pharmacy chains across 20 US states and more data added daily.

Features:

• Find a flushot in you area.
• Lists locations for both seasonal and H1N1 vaccinations.
• Currently site lists clinics and pharmacy chains across 20 US states.
• Additional info such as availability, price and working hours are also displayed.
• Free and no sign up.
• Similar tools: Google Flu Trends, FluTracker and more in 5 Websites To Get Swine Flu Facts.

Check out FluShot @ www.maps.google.com/flushot

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• Google Flu Trends: Track World Flu Activity With Google
• FluTracker: Map Of Swine Flu Cases Across the Globe
• UCompareHealthcare: Compare Local Healthcare Providers
• Trusera: Get Practical Answers to Health Problems
• SymptomChecker: Check Medical Symptoms & What They Mean

The problem with music on YouTube is that half of the songs are either of a low quality, an unoriginal cover version or are live in convert. Most people aren’t looking for these type of videos. They just want the original song. YouTube also falls down when it comes to providing information about the singer/band in question.

YouScrobble have cleverly combined the YouTube music videos with the data from Last.fm the popular music service to create a great place to find high quality music videos along with other features and related info.

As you can see from the screenshot below, you are given the song you requested as well as many others that may suite your taste. Beyond searching for one specific track, you can also search for artists, collections and entire albums along with their respective information retrieved from Last.fm. You can also add songs and albums to your Quicklist which acts as a playlist so you can listen to them at a later date.

YouScrobble is a free service to use however to download a song you do have to pay.

Features:

• Combines YouTube and Last.Fm into cool music service.
• Good indexing of quality music videos, songs and band/album information.
• Good layout and structure to the site.

Check out YouScrobble @ www.youscrobble.com (by Dean Sherwin)

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• StreamDrag: Hear Songs You Like Online
• Sawgi: Audio Version of YouTube
• PWNLast.fm: Adds Torrents to Download Last.fm Music
• Plistube: Create Customized Youtube Playlist Of Music Videos
• OrbitDownloader: Download Streaming Music and Videos

Buying a new car can be stressful for some. Especially those of us who don’t know our sparkplugs from our catalytic converters. There’s always that worry in the back of your mind that the dealer is trying to palm a lemon off on you – the unsuspecting customer. That’s why when we hear good things about a particular make or model from friends and co-workers, we tend to follow their lead.

Honk is a new social network for car buyers, which is built around that idea – to help us find great cars using actual ‘user’ reviews.

The main thing that I liked about Honk is that it uses existing networks to enable its users to sign up quickly and easily and get going within a few minutes. Let’s be honest, we’re not going to use it outside of the small period when we’re considering buying a car so there’s no point in jazzing up your profile. By using Facebook connect you can also see what cars your friends or people you are in contact with have had. They can then tell you the good and the bad about the car. There are also saved user reviews for each car available by clicking on the car in question.

You can also simply browse through a list of cars or (and this is my favourite) you can use your personality traits and current demographic position to refines the search results. So for example your personality is assessed, how many children, what it will be used for, your age and your gender. This then gives you a list of cars which the app thinks are suitable to for you.

There are also traditional features such as removing certain manufacturers and car classes.

Features:

• Social network for buying cars.
• Provides you unbiased reviews from real people.
• Compatible with MySpace and Facebook.
• Huge database of cars.
• Really easy to use with simple features and layout.
• Similar tools: Mota, MotorTopia and TrueCar.

Check out Ho9nk @ www.honk.com (by Dean Sherwin)

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• TrueCar: Find Out Real Prices Paid For New Cars
• RealCarTips: Find Out How Much Others Paid for Their Car
• Zapatag: Report Bad Drivers Online
• VehicleFixer: Car Repair Videos for Beginners
• Trapster: Get Alerted About Speed Traps On Your Way

If you decided to move to another city and need to check living costs there, COL (CostOfLiving) can help you. It is an online tool by BestPlaces.net, which allows you to easily compare cost of living between US cities.

Using the application easy, simply enter your current city and the city you are moving to and hit “Compare” button. COL will then present detailed comparison of living costs of two cities side-by-side in 100 categories including taxes, housing, food, utilities and transportation.

Features:

• Cost of living comparison between US cities.
• Comparison is done in 100 categories including housing, utilities, transportation and healthcare costs.
• Free and no sign up needed.
• US only.
• Similar tools: CostOfLiving.

Check out COL @ www.bestplaces.net/COL

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• CostOfLiving: Salary & Cost Of Living Comparison Tool
• WhatsTheCost: Free Financial Calculators
• SalaryScout
• PayScale
• Meeting-Ticker: Meeting Cost Meter

Mov.io is a nice tool which lets you quickly upload videos from your PC or mobile phone and share it on Twitter. To use it, you can login to its web interface using your Twitter credentials or use it on your iPhone by installing their free app available in the iTunes store. It gives you the option to upload a video from your PC, record a video using a webcam or iPhone and email the video. Once you submit the video recording and add a tweet, it automatically gets posted to your Twitter account.

The video also gets published on the Mov.io website where other users can see it and comment on it. Plus if someone retweets your video, it appears in the comment section. Overall a good service, however I couldn’t find any information on the upload limits. I am guessing it is for small video files.

Demo video:

Features

• Easy video uploading and sharing via Twitter
• Use your Twitter login details to login
• Upload or record videos from PC and iPhone
• Get retweets and user comments below the video
• Free iPhone app available

Check out Mov.io @ www.mov.io (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• WeFollow: User Powered Twitter Directory
• Utterz: Post Voice Messages to your Blog, Twitter, … from Phone
• Untiny: Extract the Original URL Behind The Short URL

Google Music Search is a service launched by Google recently and currently available only in the US. It is something which is integrated with the main Google search and helps users discover music in a better way. When you search for an artist, album, song or lyrics, Google quickly throws up song previews and other relevant artist/band information in the first few results. For the song previews, Google has partnered with sites like Pandora, MySpace, Lala, Rhapsody and Imeem. Hence it is about giving music lovers a faster access to their favorite songs and albums instead of having them find their way through the search results.

Features:

• Discover music faster in Google.
• Get song previews via partner sites.
• Partner sites include Imeem, MySpace and Pandora.
• Search by album, song, artist or song lyrics.
• Currently available in US only.

Check out Google Music Search@ www.google.com/landing/music/ (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• AudioRaider : Find Free MP3s on Google
• Woonz : Find, Play and Download Music Tracks
• Songza: Online Music Search & Internet Jukebox
• SearchHacker: Search Everything from one Place
• Search Cloudlet: Google Tag Search

DiscoveryNews is a recently launched science and technology news website from Discovery Communications. It features breaking news and in-depth articles related to the Earth, Space, Tech, Animals, Dinosaurs, Archaeology, Human and History. You can search site, browse it by categories, leave comments and subscribe to content of your interest.

The site also includes regular contributions from HowStuffWorks.com on variety of topics, and for news junkies on the go it provides iPhone/iPod touch app.

Features:

• New science and technology site from Discovery.
• Features breaking news and in-depth articles.
• Search and browse site by categories (Earth, Space, Tech, Animals, Dinosaurs, Archaeology, Human and History).
• Leave comments and subscribe to content of your interest.
• Includes regular contributors from HowStuffWorks.com on variety of topics.
• iPhone and iPod touch version supported.

Check out DiscoveryNews @ www.news.discovery.com

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• Yotify.com: Stay Notified About Content You Are Interested In
• Yahoo Go: Yahoo Apps on Your Mobile
• WebbAlert : Your Daily Tech RoundUp
• Viewmy.tv
• Vicito: Get Peronalised News in your Chat Program

Readfresh is a simple online startpage that allows you to see most recent updates on your favorite websites in real time. It has a basic interface where all websites are neatly organized in boxes, so that you can easily view what goes on.

Using the application is easy, just add your websites to the list of boxes by writing in the URLs. ReadFresh will then monitor them and bump the most recently updated ones to the top. You can quickly remove any site by clicking the remove link located within the site’s box.

The website is free and there is no sign up necessary, however registering on the site lets you store your  start-page online.
Features:

• Simple online start page application.
• Free and clean interface.
• Pulls recent changes from your favorite website and bumps it up.
• Similar tools: Guzzle.it, Tizmos and several others.

Check out Readfresh @ www.readfresh.com

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• YourMinis : Personalized Online StartPage
• YomYam: Keep Links to Your Favorite Sites on One Page
• WireNode : Create your Own Mobile Startpages
• Transferr: Visual Bookmark Organizer
• Tizmos: Thumbnails of Your Favorite Sites on One Page

RouteRank is an online trip planing service that lets you find the fastest and cheapest traveling routes. Unlike other similar sites which take into account only one type of transport RouteRank queries many different traveling services like airlines, bus, car or train companies and calculates the best way of traveling to any destination across the Europe.

When you perform a search, it lists results based on the cheapest possible price with the option to sort them by means of travel, time or CO2 emission. It will also display the departure/arrival date and the number of legs for each transportation type. You can even customize the car you might be using in your travel.

Features:

• Find fast and cheap way to travel across Europe.
• Queries many different traveling services like airlines, bus, car or train companies.
• Sort results by price, means of travel, time or CO2 emission.
• Works best for traveling across Europe.
• Similar tools: TripLittle, CommutePrice and also see related article “A Quick Road Trip Planning Guide For Techno Geeks“.

Check out RouteRank @ www.routerank.com

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• TripIt: Travel Itinerary Planner and Organizer
• Groople : Trip Planner for Groups
• Diddit: “Things To Do” Activity Guide Website
• FavouritePlaces: Maps favorite places of celebreties & local experts
• ZimRide: Carpooling Website To Find & Share Rides

Listiti is a web tool that gives you a cool way to track Twitter lists. It lets you specify keywords and get email alerts whenever they appear in tweets from selected Twitter Lists. This is useful if you want to monitor your brand, product, or company on lists of your choice.

Features:

• Create unlimited alerts for Twitter lists.
• Select and follow the most popular alerts on Listiti.
• Cancel Listiti alerts easily by clicking the deactivation link in the e-mail alert.
• Useful for to monitor your brand, product, or company on lists of your choice.
• Similar tools: TweetAlert, Twilert and TweetAlarm.

Check out Listiti  @ www.listiti.com

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• TweetAlert: Track Twitter Searches & Trends
• TweetAlarm: Get Custom Twitter Alerts Via Email
• byTagg: Get Alerts On New Search Results
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage
• Twilert: Monitor Twitter Conversations For Any Keyword

WebPagetest is a web tool that lets you test the load speed of your website. It puts your website through various load scenarios to test whether your pages execute quickly or not.

Each test runs from a server location that you specify. You can choose a browser and network configuration, set-up the various test options such as number of runs, parallel browser connections, HTTP basic authentication, scripting, and block request.

You can also check your pages’ load performance against the provided optimization checklist. Pagetest does a great job of breaking down the elements within your pages while measuring their load speed. This is handy if you want to know what slows up your webpages.

Features:

• Run your website through various page load scenarios.
• Page test results are available for first view and repeat view.
• View and compare your page load results against an optimization checklist.
• Breaks down the load speed of different elements in your website.
• Similar tool: WebSite Speed Test and WebWait.

Check out WebPagetest @ www.webpagetest.org

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• WebGraficMaker : Create Backgrounds, Lines and Bulleted Points
• ViewLike.us: Test Website In Different Resolutions
• Usabilla: Website Usability Testing Tool
• TheButtonEffect: Online Button Creation Tool
• PatternCooler: Design Cool Background Patterns for your Site

GetDeb is a constantly updated web directory where Ubuntu (Debian and Mint) users can get latest copies of Ubuntu applications not yet released in official repositories. It features lots of different apps nicely organized in respective categories.

There are two ways to get latest apps from GetDeb:

1. Search and find apps directly on GetDeb website.
2. Install GetDeb onto your system and automatically get pre-compiled .deb packages as soon as they’re available (9.04 or 9.10 Ubuntu system only).

Features:

• Find and install latest Ubuntu apps.
• Search and browse site by categories.
• Install GetDeb onto your system and automatically get pre-compiled .deb packages.
• Free and no registration necessary.
• Rate applications and leave comments (registration needed).
• Similar tools: Appnr.

Check out GetDeb @ www.getdeb.net/updates (via lifehacker.com)

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• Appnr: Directory of Free Ubuntu Apps
• WeBot: Access Your Music and Photos Remotely
• Vixta – Windows Vista style Linux Package
• Pownce: Quick File Sharing + Group Messaging
• OSLiving: Archive for Top Open Source Software

SecondSpin is a popular online marketplace for trading used CDs, DVDs and games. You can buy used merchandise at lower prices from the site with 100% quality guarantee, and sell your own unused CDs and DVDs as well. Sign up on the site to start trading items.

Unlike other online used item marketplaces like eBay, here you can instantly view the trade-in price for your media titles and sell it to the site without waiting.

Apart from the Internet store, merchandise on SecondSpin also comes from its several stores in US and brokers around the country. It has a richer selection of used media merchandise than most of the other online marketplaces.

Features:

• Popular Internet marketplace for used CDs, movie DVDs and Games.
• Buy used media at lower prices.
• 100% quality guarantee. Defect rate is less than 1%.
• Sell your own unused CDs, DVDs and Games to the site.
• Instantly view trade-in price for your merchandise.
• Sign up to start trading.

Check out SecondSpin @ www.secondspin.com

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• SwitchPlanet: Switch CDs, DVDs, Games and Books
• CoverCreator: CD & DVD Cover Maker
• Thrift Hunting : Compare Prices for CD, DVD, Books by UPC or ISBN
• StudentOfFortune: Buy & Sell Homework Answers Online
• PaperCdCase: Print a Paper CD Case

WorldClock is an online clock that along with the time shows real time statistical data of the world. The info includes things like world population, birth, death, divorce, abortion, HIV, cancer incidence… etc. You can view real time stats for one year, month, week and day.

The stats presented on the site are averages of the data gathered from sources like World Health Organization, CIA Factbook ,US Census and others.

Features:

• Shows real time statistical data of the world.
• The data includes world population, birth, divorce, abortion, HIV, cancer incidence… etc.
• View real time stats for one year, moth, week, day and now.
• The data comes from reliable sources like WHO, CIA etc.
• Free, no sign up needed.
• Similar tools: BreathingEarth.

Check out WorldClock @ www.shambles.net/worldclock/worldclock.swf

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• KmlFactBook: Maps CIA World Factbook Data on Google Maps
• InternetWorldStats: Find Out Internet Usage Stats For Any Country
• Google Internet Stats: Check Internet Stats and Facts Across Different Sectors
• Cynergy Systems Map: View US Census Data Online
• CrappyGraphs: Draw Quick Graphs Online

Internet radio has become a popular entertainment source especially for music and podcast-like talk shows. I have found a great application that allows you to listen to Internet radio on the move without shelling out for an expensive smart phone.

VirtualRadio is an application for Java enabled cell phones which allows the user to listen to Internet radio stations on their cell phone. The app uses the GPRS internet connection available on almost all cell phones to download the audio at a rate of 32kb/s. The audio quality is very high and music is crisp and uninterrupted.

There are loads of different channels to choose from  and categories (called groups) to browse through channels which interest you such as ‘Music’ and ‘Politics’.

The app is completely free to download and use, although GPRS costs apply and vary depending on your network.

Features:

• Listen to radio on your phone.
• Multiple Channels.
• Good quality audio.
• Works on almost any Java enabled cell phone.

Check out Virtual Radio @ www.download.cnet.com/VirtualRadio (by Dean Sherwin)

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• TheSixtyOne : Discover Great Tunes Before Everyone Else
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• StumbleAudio: Cool Indie Music for your Taste

UnitConverter.org is a web resource that freely offers an extensive collection of free unit converters for converting almost anything to anything. It lists around 80 different converters organized in categories such as Common converters, Engineering converters, Heat converters, Fluids converters, Sound converters, Light converters, Electricity converters, Magnetism converters… etc.

What makes UnitConverter stand out from many other online converters is an option to add desired converters to your blog or personal website. There is no doubt that many people can make use of this.

Moreover, there is an offline UnitConverter that users can download and use it offline.

Features:

• Free unit converters to convert almost anything to anything.
• Converters are organized in categories etc.
• Embed unit converters onto your site or personal web page.
• Desktop application is also provided.

Check out UnitConverter @ www.unitconverter.org

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• Unit Converter: Instant Unit Converting
• Converticious: Clean & Simple Unit Conversion App
• TxtNinja: Convert Text into Pictures
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• PDFNewspaper: Web Page To PDF Converter

HerdictWeb tracks inaccessible sites in real time. It collects data on websites from users in different countries.  Here is how it works: First you visit the homepage and enter the website URL that you can’t access. Then hit “Enter” to view current reports.

If the site was reported as accessible, then it’s likely that the site is down just for you (eg. problem with your internet connection, corporate firewall). If it was reported as inaccessible by users in your country or other locations worldwide, then its likely to be a common problem.

To check whether the sites are down/inaccessible while you browse, install a browser add-on for Firefox. If it shows green then the site its fine. On the other hand, if the color is yellow, it means a site was recently inaccessible in some location(s) worldwide.

Participate and report on inaccessible websites by clicking “Report this site…” in the add-on. It makes the tool more useful for everyone using it.

Features:

• Check whether a particular site is inaccessible for everyone or just you.
• Data collected from Internet users around the world.
• Install Firefox browser add-on to check the real time accessibility of sites you browse and report on inaccessible sites.
• View inaccessibility reports over different periods of time (days, week, whole year).
• Project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
• Free, no registration needed.
• Similar tools : DownForEveryoneOrJustMe, IsThisDown and AreMySitesUp.

Check out HerdictWeb @ www.herdict.org/web

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• Unlinker: Quickly See Full Images Behind Links or Thumbnails
• SiteLauncher: Launch Favorite Websites with Simple Shortcuts
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• OpenItOnline: Open Files Online
• MultiLinks: Multiple Link Opener & Bookmarker

Unhid is a dead-simple online tool that does one simple thing, it reveals the actual URL behind any shortened link. This comes in handy if you received a suspicious short link and not sure whether it is safe or not.

The tool provides a bookmarklet which you drag and drop onto your browser toolbar. Whenever you come across a suspicious short link, click on the bookmarklet to view the URL it points to. You may even preview links directly on the site.

Features:

• Preview URLs behind shortened links.
• Preview links without going to the website they point to.
• Browser bookmarklet provided.
• Quick and simple to use.
• Similar tools: Real-URL, Untiny, PrevURL and LongURL.

Check out Unhid @ www.unhid.co.cc

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• Real-URL: View Real URL Behind Short URL
• SHUURL: Make “Safe” Short URLs
• TinyPaste : Quickly Get Shareable URL for any Text
• Shortless : Shorten Long Links

BudgetPulse is a newly launched web based personal finance management tool which boasts of a variety of cool features. Contrary to other similar tools, this service is completely free to use at the moment.

You can sign up and get access to a comprehensive online dashboard which helps you centralize your finances and manage them at one place. See your budget, cash flow, income and expenses and create personal finance goals accordingly.

It helps you monitor income and expenses using tags and categories. You can create multiple accounts and set savings goals. Add bank accounts, credit cards and other financial data and get a clear view of your assets and liabilities.

A good thing about this tool is that it offers global currency support. So it’s no longer just about the US dollar.

As you can see in the screenshot above, there are various ways to visualize the data using charts, graphs and sliders. There are options like pie-charts, bar graphs etc to see your data.

The service also offers some advanced tools to manage your transactions and figure out where the money is going and where it is coming from. You could split large transactions into categories, track recurring transactions and do much more.

Other nice features offered by this service include easy import and export of your financial data, instant net worth calculation, data security, online fundraising and more. Check out the video below to know more about this tool.

Demo video:

Check out BudgetPulse @ www.budgetpulse.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Texthog: Track Budget & Expenses via SMS, Email & Twitter

If you ever wanted to test your movie knowledge, head straight to WhatTheMovie.com. It is an innovative and addicting movie quiz site where you guess the movie title by the snapshot, and collect points for the Hall of Fame. The site also provides movie ratings and reviews.

Getting started is easy, the quiz begins as you visit the site and you can also check out featured or newly added movie snapshots. Registering on the site lets you bookmark movies and snapshots on your personal online watchlist.

Additionally, you can contribute to the site by uploading snapshot, writing reviews and rating movies.

Features:

• Guess the movie title by the snapshot.
• Check out recent and featured snapshots.
• Check out movie review and ratings.
• Add movies and snapshots to your favorites/bookmarks/watchlist (registration required).
• Rate movies and write reviews.
• Free and easy to use.

Check out WhatTheMovie @ www.whatthemovie.com

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• Write Like An Egyptian

Quick Image Downloader is an experimental Firefox add-on that lets you quickly save multiple images displayed on any webpage with a single click. All you need to do is to install add-on as usual, and after restarting your browser you will see a green download arrow at the bottom-right corner of your browser. Clicking it will download images on any web page.

Even though the add-on is experimental, it works perfectly and does what it says.

Features:

• Download multiple images on any web page at once.
• Quick, simple and easy to use.
• Works with Firefox only.

Check out Quick Image Downloader @ addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/46864

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The Bible is the most reproduced book in the entire world having been translated into hundreds of languages and published by thousands of book publishers and binders throughout the ages. Now, it’s available on your PC and phone.

iBible is a web app that lets you read entire Bible online. It has the entire bible (both testaments) translated into several languages including French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Polish. It’s very simple to use and it has no requirement to set anything up.

The home screen of iBible is a list of languages which in turn will direct you to a list of chapters and sections which the reader can select to skip to them right away. All the sentences are numbered for quick and easy referencing and all the text is properly typed and laid out – not just bad quality PDF copies which I’ve seen in the past.

Because the majority of the app is text, it’s suitable to be loaded on almost and device with access to the internet such as an iPhone, a PSP or a basic GPRS mobile phone.

Check out iBible @ www.ibible.mobi (by Dean Sherwin)

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Obama-Weather is a new and fun online weather forecast application. When you visit the site it automatically detects your location and gives 5 day weather report with president Obama demonstrating to you what you need to wear.

You can also search and get weather forecast for any location world wide. If you do not like Obama character, the site lets you switch it to Angelina Jolie, Dr. Gregory House or Bender Bending Rodríguez.

The weather data (temperature, humidity, strength of wind and some other characteristics) comes from weather.com.

Watch Obama-Weather coverage on CNN:

Features:

• Quick and fan weather forecast tool with Obama the weatherman.
• Switch Obama character to Angelina Jolie, Dr. Gregory House or Bender Bending Rodríguez.
• The weather data comes from weather.com.
• Simple and easy to use.
• Similar tools: Sleeves, GoingToRain and UmbrellaToday.

Check out Obama-Weather @ www.obama-weather.com

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GroupBoard is a website that provides embeddable and multifunctional group-boards which come with online drawing, chatting, messaging tools and games. You can easily integrate these group-boards onto your site or personal webpage and let participants collaboratively interact, chat and play games together.

The app can come in very handy for things like distance tutoring or training, collaboration or interacting with your website visitors.

GroupBoard offers both free and paid accounts. The free account lets you create as many group-boards as you like but limited to 5 users per session. The premium accounts provide more features and include voice conferencing.

Getting started is easy, you don’t even need to register for a free account. Simply enter the name of your group-board, select the tools you want to have (whiteboard, chat, message board and games) and hit “Get my Free Groupboard!” button. Get an embed code for embedding and a direct link for sharing your group-board with others. You can also password protect your group-board.

Feature overview:

• Embeddable group-boards which come with whiteboard, chatting, messaging tools.
• Easily integrate group-boards onto you site or personal webpage.
• Share your group-boards by forwarding a link.
• Your group-board participants can collaboratively draw, upload images, chat, send emails and play games.
• The free account lets you create as many group-boards as you like but limited to 5 users per session, and only 20 images can be stored online.
• Option to password protect your group board.

Check out GroupBoard @ www.groupboard.com (get free Groupboard here).

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Connectify is a desktop tool that turn your pc/laptop into a wireless access point. Working essentially as a front end for Window 7’s “virtual wi-fi” feature, Connectify allows you to share the internet connection of your laptop with other users.

It is also handy for keeping all your mobile devices connected from one internet source without having to rely on wireless routers.

Connectify is one of the first tools that uses the power of mesh networking. The idea behind mesh networks is that every pc/laptop can become a wi-fi hotspot, ensuring not only a steady internet connection but also allow integration of different devices without having to set up anything.

Once installed, Connectify sits in your system tray. To start a hotspot, just fill in your preferred Wi-Fi name and your pass phrase, and then click the large button to turn the hotspot on. Other devices will immediately detect your created hotspot and they can join in using the password that you supplied.

You can also use Connectify to start your home network to share files and printers without using a router.

Features:

• Create a wi-fi hotspot from your pc/laptop in an instant.
• Created hotspots require WPA passphrases for better security.
• Connect and sync your wi-fi enabled devices without using cords, blue tooth, or wireless router.
• Works with Windows 7 (only).

Check out Connectify @ www.connectify.me

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More and more people are choosing online education to take care of their needs rather than attending a regular college. This is to fit their schedule better or due to financial constraints. GuideToOnlineSchools.com is a web directory of online schools that has thousands of reviews and profiles of schools over the world which teach online.

On the homepage they have a search function pictured above where you can find a college that caters to a course you want to do. Here are some of the search results for a Bachelor’s Degee in Business. As you can see, they’re well presented.

Each school has a full profile with photographs and details of the courses available there. There are also user reviews which discuss the tutoring of the students and how the examination and project system works and about the degrees one can achieve.

They also have ‘Online College Ranking’ which shows the top 25 schools by their merit and results achieved there by the online students.

This website is a great resource for those thinking of doing an online course. It helps to make a decision which would normally be solved by visiting the actual college.

Features:

• Web directory of online schools and courses
• Lists thousands of online colleges and courses.
• Search and browse by categories.
• Provides reviews, rankings and resources for decision making.

Check out GuideToOnlineSchools @ www.guidetoonlineschools.com (by Dean Sherwin)

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Mockingbird is a new tool which makes creating and sharing website mockups a cakewalk. The service, which is completely web based, could prove to be extremely useful for designers and developers who work with large number of clients from all over the world.

Using its drag and drop interface, you can quickly create website mockup before you actually start designing it. It has all the necessary user interface elements like text boxes, search bars, buttons and much more. Create different mockup pages and link them together. Automatic resizing of text when the boxes are resized. Also preview them and share with clients easily.

Features:

• Online website wire framing and mockup sharing tool.
• Clean interface. Drag and drop elements easily.
• Preview and share the mockups in one click.
• Share mockups with others and get their feedback.
• Create multiple mockups and link them.
• Similar tools: MockFlow and iPlotz.

Check out Mockingbird @ www.gomockingbird.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Restaurants Regions is a recently launched food guide by CHOW, the well known food site by CBS. While there are many food and restaurant guides available on the internet, what makes this guide unique is the ability to filter results by the type of cuisine. And it’s not just about the main cuisines like Italian, American, Mexican etc. It dives deep into the kinds of cuisine and presents you with a huge number of options ranging from Cuban to Mediterranean cuisine, bakery stuff to Chinese food, vegetarian to vegan, Pan-Asian to Japanese and much more.

You can also filter by location, type (like kid-friendly or romantic) and price (from low to high). The guide is currently US only and covers all the major cities.

Features:

• Restaurants guide by Chow, the popular food site.
• Check out restaurants based on the type of cuisine you prefer.
• Covers major US cities.
• Huge range of cuisines to choose from.
• Other search filters like location, type and price also available.

Check out CHOW Restaurants Regions @ www.chow.com/restaurants/regions (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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VeoProject is a new and powerful web tool that lets you setup and manage projects online. Your projects will be hosted online and you can easily collaborate and share them with your team members.

The application has a spreadsheet like interface where projects are organized in rows, with individual project parts and tasks hierarchically listed in between.

This makes managing and editing any part of your project very easy. You can edit project tasks in-line, delete tasks, mark tasks as complete, view task history and copy tasks.

Other general features such as setting milestones, scheduling email reminders, adding comments and linking to web content are present as well.

All files related to your projects are nicely stored in one place for quick access. There is also a “my tasks” section where you can view all your personal tasks across multiple projects, and “dashboard” section that shows project progress and upcoming tasks.

Moreover, VeoProject lets you connect and collaborate on your projects using popular online services like Google Calendar, Twitter, Salesforce.com and Microsoft Outlook.

Feature overview:

• Easily build and manage projects online.
• Collaborate and share projects with others.
• Provides intuitive spreadsheet like interface with tasks hieararchy.
• Supports configurable cross-project reporting.
• Email, Google Calendar, Twitter, Salesforce.com and Microsoft Outlook integration.
• Options to set email notifications and reminders.
• All project related files are nicely stored and organized in one place.
• Ability to Import/Export projects.
• Advanced inline tasks editing.
• Set project milestones and add notes to your tasks.
• Provides a personal task section for each user.
• Free (basic) account allows you to store upto 10 project documents and limited to 20MB of storage space.
• For additional details take a video tour.

Check out VeoProject @ www.veoproject.com

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The big social networks have most of us covered for our main social needs – but many of us have specialized hobbies and interests that are largely marginalized on the big sites because in the broad scheme of things they’re insignificant. These gaps are filled by smaller networks where like-minded people can connect. One such site is iBotanika, a social network for gardeners, plant enthusiasts and botanists in general.

Having signed up, each member is given a ‘Greenhouse’ which is the equivalent of a profile. Here you upload photos (of both yourself and your plants), add your plants and connect with other users. The feature to add your own plants is particularly interesting as it serves multiple purposes. The first and most obvious one is to showcase your hard work to the community and to ignite conversation. However, as you can see from the screenshot below, you can also use it as a catalogue for your plants to record their health, maintenance, environment and location. For those with more than one house or gardening location (such as professional gardeners and landscapers) you can add different locations to a map for all to see such as in the screenshot below.

‘Following’ a plant will give you regular updates if it is edited and it will also put you into contact with other followers who have that plant or are similarly interested in it. Each plant profile has detailed instructions for looking after it as well as other uses such as culinary and medicinal.

Features:

• Social networking for gardeners.
• Serch for information and advice on plants.
• Dedicated community.
• Organize and manage your plants and garden online.
• Similar sites: MyPlantId and GardenPlanner.

Check out iBotanika @ www.ibotanika.com (by Dean Sherwin)

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If you are a bargain hunter but also don’t like to compromise on quality then Cheapism is a website you should bookmark. What it does is simple – it searches for best quality products among the cheapest ones. The site features budget product reviews in various categories like home & garden, kitchen utilities, computers, electronics, sports, travel and many more.

It is full of resources like articles, product descriptions, bargain deals and reviews. It presents you with a lot of content and information on every product or category you decide to look into. You can also go through related news stories and articles in their official blog which provides things like coupon codes, discounts and product purchase advice.

Features:

• Find the best cheap products.
• Comprehensive budget product reviews and purchase guidelines available.
• Wide range of categories to choose from.
• Discount deals from various vendors available.

Check out Cheapism @ www.cheapism.com (via Lifehacker, by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Usability testing is very important for any website in order for it to become successful. If you don’t know what users feel about your site and where they click, there is high probability that you lose visitors and revenue in the long run.

Usabilla offers an easy way to quickly collect visual feedback on a webpage, mockup, sketch or an image. It has a nice interface with clear instructions on how to get the user feedback.

Here’s how it works:

1. The developer creates a test in the tool.
2. He then selects webpages to run the tests on and that will be shown to the users.
3. Then he selects the questions to be asked. He can also create his own questions.
4. Next step is to invite the users to answer the questions and give feedback.
5. Finally, he can go through visual statistics and analyze the results.

A nice thing about this tool is that visitors can give feedback right on the page they are at. They could write notes, mark the things they don’t like etc, right on top of the mockup, image or the webpage. Also, as you can see in the screenshot above, the statistics are presented visually in forms of heatmaps and other such methods. You can also easily export the data in CSV, XML or plain text.

Check out Usabilla @ www.usabilla.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Voicethread is a powerful tool for creating multimedia slideshows and lectures. The application combines different media to create effective teaching materials and projects, stored online and easily shared and commented on by others.

Voicethread works with the idea that each picture is worth a thousand words. User can view slideshows, zoom and pan through images, and leave comments through voice, text, audio file, video, or even via telephone). With Voicethread, viewers are encouraged to actively engage in discussions using these commenting tools. All group discussions (or voicethreads) happen on one simple page.

Voicethreads are more organized than the usual live web conferencing interfaces since each comment are posted one at a time and stored in the thread so that future viewers can see them.

The features are designed to work well for educators in a distance learning environment. Students can create digital stories and reports, and teachers can demonstrate their research or prepare remote lectures.

Voicethread demo video:

Features:

• Start group conversations around images, documents, and videos.
• Embed and share voicethreads from your website.
• Comment in one of five ways: voice, text, audio file, video, or telephone.
• Free for educators.
• Draw doodles on top of images and videos.
• Moderator options for voicethread comments.

Check Out Voicethread @ www.voicethread.com

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The App Garden is a newly created section on Flickr which basically is a repository of Flickr apps. It lists all sorts of handy tools for Flickr i.e. stats counters, download/upload tools, slideshow generators, mobile browsers and so on. You can search for apps, browse by tags, and discover new tools.

Clicking on particular app presents a page where you can read or leave comments about it, see how many people has marked it as favorite, and visit the actual site.

Features:

• Official Flickr apps directory.
• Search by keyword, browse and discover new tools by tags.
• Read and leave comment.

Check out The App Garden @ www.flickr.com/services (via Downloadsquad)

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NewOCR is a web based tool that can recognize text from images or scanned documents and convert into editable text. The application is completely free, and the process of getting text from images is very easy.

To convert, simply upload your image file (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and TIFF) which cannot exceed the size of 1MB. Resize and rotate it to achieve the best recognition results, and then click on “Send” button to start the process. Once completed, recognized text will be displayed at the bottom of the same page.

NewOCR supports 29 languages which include Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

Features:

• Extract text from scanned documents or images.
• Unlimited uploads, no registration, 100% secure.
• Supported image file formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and TIFF (any compression mode).
• Works with image files up to 1 MB in size.
• Multilingual support for 29 languages.
• Optimize image to achieve the best recognition results by resizing and rotation.
• Similar tools: OnlineOCR, FineReaderOnline, Free-ORC and OCRTerminal.

Check out NewOCR @ www.newocr.com

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ForwardOn is a web service that provides an alternative way to share your favorite emails with others. Instead of forwarding them to your friends individually ForwardOn lets you send them to share@forwardon.com and convert email to html entities by publishing it on your personal www.forwardon.com<<username>> page for your friends and family to see.

Your emails will presented on clean format along with attached files, videos, pictures, audio. Using the website is very easy and requires sign up.

You can also browse emails shared by other users, check out most popular shared items, rate them and leave comments.

Moreover, ForwardOn has a reward system where depending on the popularity of your posts you get points which can be redeemed as various prizes or donations to several organizations.

Features:

• Easily share and convert your favorite emails to webpages.
• Receive a link to access your page directly.
• You can edit/delete your emails at any time.
• Browse and check out emails shared by others and your friends.
• Comment, rate and share any posts you find throughout the website.
• Free and easy to sign up.
• Similar site: Moomeo.

Check out ForwardOn @ www.forwardon.com

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GazoPa, a tool by Hitachi, is a unique similar image search tool that gives a variety of options when it comes to finding images based on similarity. You can upload an image, just draw a rough sketch, supply an image URL or conduct a similar image search using keywords. You could filter search results by color, layout, size, shape and on the basis of its age on the web.

And it doesn’t stop at just the images. It also fetches videos related to the image content, similar images from Flickr (there are separate filters based on image licenses for Flickr too) and news stories with images. If you want to find out where exactly the image appeared, you just need to hover your mouse above it and it pops up the information.

Demo video:

Features:

• Search images by similarity.
• Upload images or draw a rough sketch to find similar images.
• Also search similar images by giving an image url or keyword.
• Filter search results by size, color and more.
• Get videos, Flickr images and news results too.
• Similar tools: Pixolu and more in recent MakeUseOf article about alternative image search engines.

Check out GazoPa@ www.gazopa.com (via TechCrunch, by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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CoTweet is a suite of tools within one app which helps small businesses and enterprises to manage their Twitter communication easily and effectively. The main feature is letting various people use the same Twitter account to tweet. Hence corporate Twitter accounts can be managed easily. You could add upto six different Twitter accounts to the tool and invite people to tweet on your (or your company’s) behalf.

There are also options to monitor keywords and trends related to your company, schedule tweets, get notified via email when you receive tweets, assign tweets to employees, archive tweets and do much more. One nice feature is click tracking that integrates nicely with bit.ly. Overall, an excellent tool for businesses for managing their reputation using Twitter.

Features:

• Twitter client for businesses.
• Completely web based and free to use.
• Manage multiple accounts with multiple users.
• See tweets of employees as conversations.
• Schedule and archive tweets.
• Track clicks using bit.ly.
• Post updates to multiple accounts simultaneously.

Check out CoTweet @ www.cotweet.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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CompareMyDocs is a new web application that allows users to compare and merge text documents online. You can upload different versions of the same text document and see what has been changed. It automatically color codes changes it finds between the different revisions of a document and provides user with an easy way to approve, reject, or set aside a change.

When all changes are made, CompareMyDocs provides a download link to a final version of document that incorporates all changes. You can download and save the document back to your computer as a Word document or RichText file. The site is completely free and doesn’t require sign up.

Demo video:

Features:

• Compare, recombine and merge documents online.
• Supported document formats: .doc, .docx and .rtf.
• Compare upto 6 versions of the same document.
• Save finalized version of document as a Word or RichText file.
• Quick, simple to use, free, and no registration.
• Similar tool: CompareMyFiles.

Check out CompareMyDocs @ www.secure2.textflow.com/comparemydocs (via Webware)

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